Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you’re on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don’t want to be onstage looking like a robot,
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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, ‘Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast.
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I’m bored way too easily. I’m staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
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My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It’s much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
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The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.
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My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It’s more like a character that’s sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.
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At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
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For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
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You love the people that give you money and attention? Of course you do, that’s not selfless that you love your fans, that’s ridiculous.
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I’m also wary about the fact that if you don’t proceed with caution and understand what you’re doing, you understand these things are realities that you’re dealing with, they’re real things.
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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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